Good afternoon dear accomplices!

I decided to post a couple of master classes for beginners: beads using the salt technique and 2 ways to sculpt oranges

In my opinion, a journey into the magical world of jewelry from polymer clay you should start with the salt technique: it is quite simple and effective:

1. Necessary materials:plastic (in this case Polish), stationery knife, toothpick, sugar, container with water on the stove.
2.3. cut the plastic into pieces the right size and warm up.
4. make balls (I hope everyone understands how to roll the balls in your palms) here the accuracy of the figure is not the most important thing.
5. Dip our blank bead into a container with sugar, press the sugar into it a little
6. Roll the ball, rolling in the sugar.
Next, we repeat steps 5 and 6 several times so that the plastic “takes” more sugar (the more, the more interesting and varied the pattern)
7. We put the sugar balls in the refrigerator for a while so that the plastic cools down from our hands and hardens a little, this will make it easier to make a hole. At this time, turn on the gas under the saucepan with water and heat it to a boil.
8. Use a toothpick (a needle, a syringe, an awl, or basically anything sharp) to make a hole using gentle medical movements.
9. Place one ball at a time (so they don’t stick to each other) into boiling water. And leave them to cook for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the beads. Then we give them and let them cool.
10. We collect beads into beads and get an exclusive decoration.

OK it's all over Now. There is no need to varnish.

As a result, we can assemble the following decoration:

Now oranges, this is a little more complicated:

1 way is easier

1. Necessary materials: white and orange plastic, stationery knife
2. We form a ball from orange plastic and flatten it to form a cylinder.
3. We divide the office. cut in half with a knife
4. We put a white strip between the two halves and connect them together, compact them a little, returning the shape of the cylinder.
5. Cut across and insert the white strip again. Repeat the steps until you get 8 slices. Recommendation: before each cutting, it is better to put the plastic in the refrigerator for a while so that it cools from the warmth of your hands, then it will be easier to cut and the shape will not be lost.
6. We wrap our cylinder with slices in white plastic.
7. We wrap our cylinder with slices in orange plastic.
8. Press the resulting sausage
9. Result: orange slices.

Method 2 - the slices are more realistic

Because There are too many photos, so I optimized everything as much as possible, but I’ll tell you more in the description:
1. Required materials: plastic in two colors - orange and white
2. Roll a sausage out of orange plastic, wrap it in a white stripe and cut into 8 equal parts - orange slices.
3. Flatten each part on one side, obtaining the shape of a droplet.
4. We roll a small sausage out of white plastic - this is our middle. And we collect slices around it.
5. Roll a thin white sausage and divide it into 8 parts equal to the height of our orange. We put them between the slices.
6. Wrap the resulting sausage in white plastic
7. Wrap the resulting sausage in orange plastic
8. Gently compress the sausage to the required size
9. Result.
I remind you that before cutting the sausage, it must be cooled from the warmth of your hands, then it will be easier to cut the pieces evenly.

Creative success!

For example, you can make beads from orange sausage:

Thank you for your attention!

The name speaks for itself: when making products using this technique, salt is used (ordinary table salt, fine “Extra” salt, cosmetic “sea” salt, as well as sugar). Being one of the easiest, this technique is perfect for beginners.

To make beautiful and unusual beads you only need salt, plastic of the desired shade, and a little imagination. The beads are rolled in salt, the grains of which are pressed into the product. After baking, the salt is washed away with water, and uneven depressions remain in its place. The effect we want to achieve depends on the size of the salt crystals.

Ordinary table salt gives products a natural uneven structure, as it contains small crystals along with large ones.

In order for the product to turn out with a clearly expressed relief pattern, during the work it is necessary to apply force, rolling grains of salt into the plastic. It is most convenient to rotate the salt-coated bead between your palms until a uniform surface is achieved. If you see that all the salt crystals are tightly embedded in the plastic, the product is ready for baking.

To make a hole in a raw bead, you can use a toothpick or a thin awl. The baked product is drilled with a mini drill.

After you remove the product from the oven, you need to dissolve the salt in it by placing the bead in a glass of water. After some time, you will see how a relief “corroded” by crystals appears on its surface. When the salt has completely dissolved, the bead must be taken out of the water and allowed to dry thoroughly.
You can see what the beads look like when processed with table salt.

A very interesting effect is achieved by using fine “Extra” salt mixed with spices.

The beads obtained with its help can be called “shaggy”, for their unusual structure.

It is best to coat products treated with such “spicy” salt with a matte varnish. The movements of the brush should be light, neat, and fast. To prevent the varnish from dripping from the brush, you only need to dip the very tip of the brush. To varnish porous beads, brushes with hard, even bristles are used.

To achieve the most prominent depressions on the surface of the product, you need to use sea cosmetic salt.

Large salt crystals make the bead look like pumice. The finished product can be coated with either a glossy or matte finish. It is not recommended to polish the surface of “salt” beads. If you still want to add a real glossy shine to your products, you can use the finest grain sandpaper.
After baking, the beads can also be tinted perfectly. acrylic paints, powder, mother of pearl.

The relief surface of plastic can be given not only with salt, but also with sugar.

The process of processing a product with sugar is no different from processing it with salt.

If you want to get large “pores” in the beads, you can sift the sugar through a fine sieve.
Beads rolled in sugar always look impressive (see picture on the right). Some craftsmen prefer to use only sugar in their work.

It is convenient to bake products prepared using the technique presented to your attention by placing them on a layer of salt distributed over the surface of a baking sheet (tiles, glass). The beads can also be boiled. To prevent the balls from sticking to each other during the cooking process, carefully lower them one at a time into boiling water and leave to simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes. After which you need to take out the beads and let them cool.

Examples of products using salt technology are given below:

Earrings “Rainbow Mood”. Made using table salt.

Necklace and earrings “Violet”. Sea salt is used, the beads are coated with glossy varnish.

Keychain "Sweet Life". Sugar was used to process the beads.

Master classes on modeling from polymer clay: Salt technique

A technique that every beginner should know. Salt technology You can use it not only for making round beads. It is often used when modeling baked goods. In my master class, coarse table salt is used. You can also use sugar or fine salt. If you don't have a machine to drill beads, then place the beads on toothpicks. More details in "Step 5" .

Let's get started:

Step 1. We tear off a piece of clay and knead it well. To make sausages, first roll a ball in your hands, then simply roll it out either between your palms or on a work surface to make sausages as in the photo. You can see how this is done below. Step 3.

Step 2. Using a blade, cut the sausage into equal parts (“by eye”). This is done in order to get identical balls afterwards.

Step 3. We roll balls. First, slightly crush the piece on all sides, place it between your palms and, without pressing too much, make rotational movements 3 times to the left, 3 to the right, continue until a ball is formed. We feel the clay, we don’t crush our ball. There is no need to make a perfect ball.

Step 4. Now we need salt. You can throw the ball into salt and roll it thoroughly in the container, pressing the salt into it, let it deform, no big deal. Or pour salt into your hand and roll it, pressing on all sides, letting it deform a little. Afterwards we simply roll it between our palms to even it out. As shown in " Step 3"

Step 5. The beads are ready, you can bake them (temperature and time depend on the clay manufacturer, see packaging). For polymer clays (plastics) of the brands Fimo, Cernit, Sculpey, Sonet - 130 g. 30 minutes. If you don’t have anything to drill beads with, then first put the blanks in the refrigerator so that they freeze, then put them on toothpicks. After baking, while they are still hot, remove them from the toothpicks. If you forgot to remove it, reheat the pieces in the oven.

Step 6. Let our beads cool in the oven. Place in a container and fill with hot water. To make the salt dissolve faster, actively stir the beads and the salt will quickly dissolve in the water. We take out the beads and dry them. The result is below. You don’t have to varnish them, they look great anyway.

The master class was prepared by Stella Zateinitsa from Surgut especially for the Casket website.

Good afternoon dear needlewomen!

My name is Stella, a lover of needlework and everything connected with it. I would like to present to you a master class on making beads from polymer clay using the salt technique. Why salt? Because to make beads, in addition to plastic, ordinary table or sea cosmetic salt is used.

I would like to note that it is worth paying attention to this technique for those needlewomen who are just starting to work with polymer clay. Good results at the beginning are a great incentive for further work. When I started to sculpt from polymer clay myself, I lacked good advice from knowledgeable people, don't start with heavy techniques. I got tired of sculpting flowers and creating complex designs very quickly. Trying complex techniques, having not yet understood the details and subtleties, I abandoned this matter for 2 whole years.
Start easy, improve gradually and you will see good results very quickly.

Necessary materials:
- glass or plastic work surface;
- polymer clay (you can start with one color, I used two - white metallic and blue);
- stationery knife;
- salt or sugar;
- toothpick, awl or needle;
- a stove and a pan of water (we will not bake the beads, but boil them);

So let's get started.
Step 1. Knead the plastic well and roll it into a thin sausage. I took two colors, so I should have two sausages. The blue one is twice as long, since it is the main color; I add metallic white to lightly lighten and shine the beads.

Step 2. Using a utility knife, cut the sausages into equal pieces and form equal balls. I have small balls with a diameter of about 6 -7 mm, since I add white color in different proportions. If you are working with one color, you can immediately cut it into large balls and form beads. The size is at your discretion, most often it is 1-1.5 cm. Also, instead of balls, you can form cubes, triangles, cones, rhombuses and other shapes.

Step 3. Take salt (I replaced it with sugar) and roll all the balls in it. Using sugar or fine salt, we subsequently obtain even and neat holes. If you need large holes with the structure of a sponge, use sea cosmetic salt.
Leave the beads for 30 minutes. cool in our hands or put in the refrigerator for 7-10 minutes.

Step 4. Using a toothpick, awl or needle, make holes all the way through each ball. But you can also drill holes using a thin drill and in baked beads.

Step 5. Boil water in a saucepan, drop one bead at a time (so as not to stick together) into the water and cook for 12-15 minutes over medium heat. Remove and place in cold water to cool quickly.

Our beads are ready!

Sanding with sandpaper is not recommended; it can ruin the relief. If there is a need to add shine to the product, you can sand it with fine sandpaper or coat it with acrylic varnish for plastic.
From ready-made beads, you can collect: beads, bracelets, earrings, keychains, etc.

Using only made beads and a thin cord, I assembled charming beads for a summer dress.

Beads made of polymer clay are perfectly combined with beads, glass beads and metal fittings.

Thank you for your attention. I wish you great success in your endeavors!

Salt or sugar is used to create a porous surface on polymer clay. They are added to clay or applied on top of the product before baking, and then removed by dissolving in water.

The larger the salt or sugar particles, the larger the pores in the clay.

This technique is called “salt” or “sugar”. It is one of the easiest to use when working with polymer clay, so it can be recommended for beginners.

Required materials and tools

Let's get started

Roll out blue and white polymer clay, cut out triangles and fold them into a rectangle, as shown in the photo.

Divide the rectangle into nine equal parts and cut with a blade.

Mash each strip of clay between your fingers until a uniform color is obtained and roll into a ball. These will be beads for the bracelet, and for the earrings, mix an arbitrary amount of white and blue clay and roll the same balls.

Dip each ball in salt, roll in it, and then between your palms so that the salt does not fall off.

Place the preparations in the refrigerator for 15 - 20 minutes or freezer for 5 - 7 minutes.

Pierce the balls with a needle from top to bottom, being careful not to deform them.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 110 – 120 C.

Place the balls in a container of hot water and wait until the salt dissolves.

When the balls are dry, you can start assembling. Cut the cable, about 30 cm long. Thread one end of it into the clamp bead, lock and again into the bead, tighten and clamp it with pliers.

Dial on the bracelet, alternating polymer beads, cups and glass beads. Thread the other end of the cable into the clamp bead, ring, and back into the bead.